Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference : the story of linguistic interaction in the Maya Lowlands /

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Author / Creator:	Law, Danny, 1980- author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; volume 328 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory.
Subject:	Languages in contact. Mayan languages -- Social aspects. Sociolinguistics. Languages in contact. Mayan languages -- Social aspects. Sociolinguistics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230296

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ISBN:	9789027270474 9027270473 9789027248473 9027248478
Notes:	6.4 The progressive with *iyuwal. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretica.
Other form:	Print version: Law, Danny, 1980- Language contact, inherited similarity and social difference. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014] 9789027248473

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